Ten Discourses on Liable to Be Reborn, Etc.

Reading guide

One full worked example: liable to be reborn

SN 35.33 opens with the standard six-sense-field declaration: the eye, sights, eye consciousness, eye contact, and the feeling that arises from eye contact are all "liable to be reborn" — spelled out in full for the eye, then again in full for the mind, closing with this project's own familiar disillusionment-to-liberation formula.

Compressed further in translation than in the root

The Pāli root text still spells out the tongue's own full five-part chain (jivhā, rasā, jivhāviññāṇaṁ, jivhāsamphasso, and the feeling it gives rise to) before eliding the body — but Sujato's own English rendering compresses the ear, nose, and tongue together into a single line ("The ear … nose … tongue …"), leaving only the eye and the mind actually spelled out in the translation this project quotes, the same kind of translator's-choice compression this project first noticed at SN 30.17–46.

Nine more qualities, one line each

SN 35.34 through 35.42 each substitute a single word into the identical frame — "all is liable to grow old … fall sick … die … sorrow … corruption … end … fall … originate … cease" — trusting the reader to supply SN 35.33's own full six-sense-field elaboration and closing formula for each.

A colophon and uddāna left untranslated, as always

The file closes with its own untranslated colophon, "Jātidhammavaggo catuttho" ("Jātidhammavagga is the fourth"), and an untranslated uddāna verse naming all ten qualities in order — birth, aging, illness, death, sorrow, and corruption; ending, falling, originating, and, with cessation, the tenth — matching the same guide-only treatment this project has given every other vagga-closing colophon in Book IV.

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